Linux-Setup Digest #900, Volume #20 Sat, 24 Mar 01 11:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Help setting up USB, almost there?! (Long message, includes some (Walter
Francis)
Help for compiling software? (Orange)
Re: Suse 7.1 Security Question (Mitch Foxworth)
more RAM => increase SWAP also ? ("J-Pip")
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Christian Garms)
where's my timezone?? ("Darren Davison")
Re: more RAM => increase SWAP also ? (Nils Holland)
system clock ("Thomas G.")
Re: Lost Configuration (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: more RAM => increase SWAP also ? (Ian Northeast)
Re: NVIDIA & OpenGL (Ron Nicholls)
look for a linux software which like the Visual Source Safe(VSS) ("Leo Naboro")
Typesetting and Wordprocessing (Was: Re: Best E-mail Client?) (H.Bruijn)
installing new themes with sawfish (John Prokopek)
linuxconf/netcon (rob)
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? (Rod Smith)
Re: Setting System Clock(s)? (Edwin Johnson)
lyx and latex (was:: Best E-mail Client?) (Jan Schaumann)
Burn bootable CD's for Suse 7.1? ("guowei dai")
Re: Help : Kernel 2.4- Compile, Lilo fine but, hang at boot (Low Han Ming)
Re: 3COM 3C905C-TX under Debian 2.2r2 (Paul Nulsen)
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Help setting up USB, almost there?! (Long message, includes some
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 06:03:25 -0500
Okay, to add some information to my previous post..
I think that USB itself is okay.. Plugging and unplugging the Smart
Media adaptor dumps a lot of stuff into the logs about vendor codes,
etc.. I'm not sure that hotplug recognises the vendor/id though..
My USB keyboard works now, /etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug status shows lots of
USB stats, including:
USB up; bus count is 1
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=e400
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 12 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
P: Vendor=04e6 ProdID=0003 Rev= 2.07
S: Manufacturer=SCM Microsystems Inc.
S: Product=eUSB SmartMedia Adapter
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 10 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
P: Vendor=045e ProdID=000b Rev= 1.04
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hid
Not sure which lines go with which, but anywho.. I think it must be the
actual SCSI emulation tying to the USB.. (the scsi-emulation has been
in use for over a year with my IDE CD burner and is working fine now,
and normal direct SCSI is working fine with my CD ROM.)
I hope someone can help! Again, Dane-Elec gave me the email address of
their driver guy who will share his code, so if this reader isn't
supported currently it shouldn't be heard to impliment.
Thanks!
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: Orange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help for compiling software?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:43:34 +0800
I have compiled kdelibs-2.1.6x.i386.src.rpm several times before
successfully. At last night I try to re-compile it again to generate new
rpms but it terminated with qt 2.2.2 or higher cannot be found. I have
installed KDE 2.1 and running the above process under KDE. Why it said
cannot find qt this time? What I have done before this time, is upgrade
my kernel to 2.4.2 and upgrade my rpm to 4.0 and then downgrade to 3.0.6
because I find that my kpackage not running with rpm4.0.
The reason of me to re-compile the kdelibs snd kdeadmin is to try to
make the kpackage support rpm4.0.
Can anyone give me some hints about my problem?
Would it be something wrong with my rpm database?
Thanks for your help!
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From: Mitch Foxworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Suse 7.1 Security Question
Date: 24 Mar 2001 11:45:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd check out the security HOWTO at
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html. Basically just turn
off unneeded services and run packet-filtering software (a firewall).
Robert Pomerenk wrote:
> I am planning on installing Suse 7.1 on my desktop. I will be accessing
> the
> Internet by cable modem. My question is what do I need to do to insure
> that I have a secure installation.
>
> Any suggestions for a newbie would be appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:42:09 +0800
From: "J-Pip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: more RAM => increase SWAP also ?
Virtual memory is supposed to give an illusion of a very large amount of
memory.
Now, on a home PC, is it sensible to create a SWAP partition of size twice
the amount of RAM when I have like 256MB ?
Isn't there a point where we indeed have a _very large amount of memory_ and
don't need the _illusion_ anymore ?
It makes sense, for a home PC, to have 128MB of swap for 64MB of RAM ...
or 256MB for 128MB of RAM. But beyond that, is there any benefit to
allocating a SWAP space greater than the amount of RAM ?
J-Philippe.
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From: Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: 24 Mar 2001 13:46:18 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowe Keller) writes:
> >You are exceptional. I would estimate that 90% of the word
> >documents I've read have broken tables of contents, broken
> >cross references, and/or broken sequence numbering. I've got
> >one at had right now where the TOC numbers are all wrong.
>
> In a world with LaTeX, SGML and Texinfo, why do some people still
> insist on doing things the *HARD WAY*?
Maybe some graphic programs to draw chemical structures are non-existent
(ChemWindows) in Linux and if I should work under WindowsNT I can also
use Bill's Word (which has an excellent Copy&Paste function). But after
finishing my thesis I converted the whole document into PDF, so it is now
readable in twenty years, then MS Word 2020 didn't recognize old
Word97-format anymore.
But for mathematical stuff LaTeX is the best. My flatmate wrote his thesis in
physics with LaTex. It was a hard way for him to put graphics into his
work, though.
My recommendation is still LyX. Best of both worlds!
--
regards,
Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Darren Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where's my timezone??
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 12:44:02 -0000
hi,
recently, my system date lost it's timezone in the output and was replaced
with the literal string '/etc/localtime' ie..
[root@monroe /root]# date
Sat Mar 24 12:43:02 /etc/localtime 2001
I have no idea what I've done to cause this, nor how to restore it to
something sensible. Anyone advise?
Many thanks,
--
Darren Davison
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: more RAM => increase SWAP also ?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 13:33:22 +0100
J-Pip wrote:
> Virtual memory is supposed to give an illusion of a very large amount of
> memory.
> Now, on a home PC, is it sensible to create a SWAP partition of size twice
> the amount of RAM when I have like 256MB ?
Actually, the "swap twice as big as main memory" rule comes from the time
when 16 and 32 MB RAM were standard. Though it isn't that true anymore,
some people seem to believe that they need no swap at all, which is
probably a really bad idea...
> Isn't there a point where we indeed have a _very large amount of memory_
> and don't need the _illusion_ anymore ?
> It makes sense, for a home PC, to have 128MB of swap for 64MB of RAM ...
> or 256MB for 128MB of RAM. But beyond that, is there any benefit to
> allocating a SWAP space greater than the amount of RAM ?
Actually, on my normal home machines, one of which has 128 MB and the other
96 MB or RAM installed, I set up 128 MB of swap. I think 128 MB is enough
for that, and even if I had 256 MB of real RAM installed, I'd still stick
with 128 MB instead of going to 256 MB swap or even twice that size.
I don't know what others would recommend, but my configuration works fine
for me. I've been monitoring RAM and SWAP usage and it doesn't seem that my
setup is too small for what I'm doing.
See ya,
Nils
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From: "Thomas G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: system clock
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:14:12 +0200
Hello
does anybody know if there's an option to not let my SuSE Linux 7.1 tamper
with the system clock. It's ok if it just displays the time I set up in the
BIOS, but now it changes the time IN the BIOS with 3 1/2 hour.
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lost Configuration
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 00:28:42 +1100
Ed wrote:
> Ed wrote:
[snip]
It should have a subject "How to lose newbieginity."
Welcome to Linux-land!
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: more RAM => increase SWAP also ?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 13:17:07 +0000
Nils Holland wrote:
>
> J-Pip wrote:
>
> > Virtual memory is supposed to give an illusion of a very large amount of
> > memory.
> > Now, on a home PC, is it sensible to create a SWAP partition of size twice
> > the amount of RAM when I have like 256MB ?
>
> Actually, the "swap twice as big as main memory" rule comes from the time
> when 16 and 32 MB RAM were standard. Though it isn't that true anymore,
> some people seem to believe that they need no swap at all, which is
> probably a really bad idea...
>
> > Isn't there a point where we indeed have a _very large amount of memory_
> > and don't need the _illusion_ anymore ?
> > It makes sense, for a home PC, to have 128MB of swap for 64MB of RAM ...
> > or 256MB for 128MB of RAM. But beyond that, is there any benefit to
> > allocating a SWAP space greater than the amount of RAM ?
>
> Actually, on my normal home machines, one of which has 128 MB and the other
> 96 MB or RAM installed, I set up 128 MB of swap. I think 128 MB is enough
> for that, and even if I had 256 MB of real RAM installed, I'd still stick
> with 128 MB instead of going to 256 MB swap or even twice that size.
>
> I don't know what others would recommend, but my configuration works fine
> for me. I've been monitoring RAM and SWAP usage and it doesn't seem that my
> setup is too small for what I'm doing.
I run 768M RAM with 256M swap and it works fine.
It depends on what you are doing. If you can fit everything into memory
you don't need a lot of swap. If you have a lot of big processes which
are largely inactive you may want a lot of swap to save having to have
so much RAM.
So start with a smallish swap space, and if it starts getting full, add
more.
Regards, Ian
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 00:24:11 +1100
From: Ron Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NVIDIA & OpenGL
Christos Dimitrakakis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had an NVIDIA M64 gfx card, which I upgraded from NVIDIA's site
> with the latest drivers.
> I also d/l new OpenGL drivers for it; I tried both the smp and the
> enterprise linux version, but they both fail to start up properly.. my
> kernel is 2.4.2 configured with no SMP - I guess this would mean that I
> use the enterprise-RH7.0 version.. now I can't uninstall the new nvidia
> drivers or use the new ones...
>
> Can someone tell me which packages I need to install to have GLUT GLIDE,
> MESA, OpenGL, work properly on my system with NVIDIA M64?
>
> System: RH7.0 w linux-2.4.2(no smp), AMD Athlon K7, Nvidia M64
>
> Cheers
>
> Christos
A HOWTO called "Nvidia OpenGL Configuration" mini-HOWTO by
Robert B Easter may be of some help
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From: "Leo Naboro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: look for a linux software which like the Visual Source Safe(VSS)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 21:25:50 +0800
goodevening every,i wanna look for a linux software which like the Visual
Source Safe(VSS)under windows98(NT).it both manage the source codes and
libs,i know that the CVS is very useful source contol.But our boss
need the libs contol also...So does anyone tell me how to do it? Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Typesetting and Wordprocessing (Was: Re: Best E-mail Client?)
Date: 24 Mar 2001 14:04:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24 Mar 2001 13:46:18 +0200, Christian Garms allegedly wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowe Keller) writes:
>
>> >You are exceptional. I would estimate that 90% of the word
>> >documents I've read have broken tables of contents, broken
>> >cross references, and/or broken sequence numbering. I've got
>> >one at had right now where the TOC numbers are all wrong.
>>
>> In a world with LaTeX, SGML and Texinfo, why do some people still
>> insist on doing things the *HARD WAY*?
>
>Maybe some graphic programs to draw chemical structures are non-existent
>(ChemWindows) in Linux and if I should work under WindowsNT I can also
>use Bill's Word (which has an excellent Copy&Paste function). But after
>finishing my thesis I converted the whole document into PDF, so it is now
>readable in twenty years, then MS Word 2020 didn't recognize old
>Word97-format anymore.
IIRC there's xymtex, which does chemical structures. BTW if you want
something non-standard you can always try to search the Comprehensive
Tex Archive Network, http://www.ctan.org.
Most packages have good, if not excellent documentation, often with the
.tex source file so that you cansee how everything was done as well.
>But for mathematical stuff LaTeX is the best. My flatmate wrote his thesis in
>physics with LaTex. It was a hard way for him to put graphics into his
>work, though.
It is not, you can easily draw tex-images in xfig, but you can simply
include postscript images in your latex as well. Postscript has like
any other vector based format the advantage that it is resolution
independant, often your figures look much better printed then they did
on your screen. And with ImageMagick's convert you can convert nearly
all image formats to postscript.
A simple figure with caption is done as follows:
% Don't forget \usepackage{graphics} in the preamle.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=10.0cm,heigth=6.5cm,rotate=90]{IMAGES/dog.ps}
\caption{This is an image of a dog, rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.}
\label{pic-dog}
\end{figure}
>
>My recommendation is still LyX. Best of both worlds!
Yes and no, it is somewhat WYSIWYG but you can also include "raw"
(la)tex for more complex tasks. But in my opinion the complete
seperation from composition and typesetting which latex enforces allows you
to concentrate on what's most important, your text, the ideas which you
wish to communicate. More on that can be found here:
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: John Prokopek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing new themes with sawfish
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 09:17:28 -0500
Can someone tell me how to install new themes using sawfish.
I have downloaded theme tarballs, renamed them without the version
number, tried to use
the add new theme dialog in the theme selector caplet and the new them
never gets listed.
I have also tried to manually untar the theme into the
/usr/shares/sawfish/0.38/themes directory
and that didn't work. I have also upgraded to the lastest sawfish as you
might have noticed from the
directory name above.
PLEASE ! I need some help
thanks
--
John D. Prokopek
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: rob
Subject: linuxconf/netcon
Date: 24 Mar 2001 14:39:15 GMT
hi
I want to use in the command line �netconf --setdevdef no_device name ip netmask
device� but I have no clue what no_device and name stands for.
netconf --setdevdef no_device name ip netmask device
netconf --setdevdef ? ? 10.2.0.1 255.255.0.0 eth0
any hints ?
or any other possibility to chance the ip adress, netmask permanent from command line.
?
thanks anyway
cu rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat???
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:24:17 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> �crivait/wrote:
>
>>RedHat used to be really great in my opinion, but the latest version has
>>given me loads of trouble...If you like redhat, use version 6.2 for server
>>environments.
>
> Red Hat and Mandrake opted to develop their own compiler from the 2.96
> development compiler. It's not and never will be a standard compiler.
>
> This manoeuvre stinks big times! Stay away from Red Hat and Mandrake!
I don't believe this is true of Mandrake. Certainly it's not reflected
in the version number on my Mandrake 7.2 system:
$ rpm -q gcc
gcc-2.95.2-12mdk
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Re: Setting System Clock(s)?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Mar 2001 15:23:22 GMT
Since you are on the west coast the files are being set to GMT, more
correctly called now UTC. I have Slackware and will have to look for it, but
there is a file, rather a command which sets up the correct file to use,
which controls the offset to produce this. On my computer I don't have the
file set for a time zone, so both hardware clock and system time are the
same. That is probably what you would like to do.
I haven't read it all, but there is a reference in man hwclock to the TZ
(Time Zone) environmental variable and/or /usr/lib/zoneinfo. A man tzset
should get you info on it.
...Edwin
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:58:32 -0800, Graeme Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Edwin Johnson at
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 3/23/01 6:02 AM:
>
>> I presume you _are_ setting the hardware clock first, and then setting the
>> system clock. Do a man hwclock.
>>
>> hwclock --set --date=newdate (sets hardware clock, hence on computer board)
>> hwclock --hctosys (sets system to the hardware)
>>
>> ...Edwin
>>
>
>Same results:
>
>[root@hal timetest]# /sbin/hwclock --set --date=08:54:00
>[root@hal timetest]# /sbin/hwclock --hctosys
>[root@hal timetest]# date
>Fri Mar 23 08:54:14 PST 2001
>[root@hal timetest]# touch test2
>[root@hal timetest]# ls -l
>total 0
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 23 16:54 test2
>
>
>
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:16:25 -0800, Graeme Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Problem - however I set the system clock, the date command returns the
>>>>> correct time, but creating files etc have the wrong time stamp.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have a look at
>>>>
>>>> http://home.world-online.no/~ackleppe/newton/redhat6/node59.html
>>>>
>>>> You can substitute the time server time.nist.gov for time.timehost.com.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Still doesn�t work :-(
>>>
>>>
>>> [root@hal timetest]# /usr/sbin/timeconfig --utc America/Los_Angeles
>>> [root@hal timetest]# date
>>> Thu Mar 22 15:56:00 PST 2001
>>> [root@hal timetest]# date -s 15:56:00
>>> Thu Mar 22 15:56:00 PST 2001
>>> [root@hal timetest]# /sbin/hwclock --utc --systohc
>>> [root@hal timetest]# date
>>> Thu Mar 22 15:56:19 PST 2001
>>> [root@hal timetest]# ls
>>> [root@hal timetest]# touch what_time_is_it
>>> [root@hal timetest]# ls -l
>>> total 0
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 22 23:56 what_time_is_it
>>> [root@hal timetest]#
>>>
>>>
>>> This is driving me insane :-) !!!! the clock returns the correct time, but
>>> any files created are on GMT
>>>
>>>
>>> (I used the menu interface for timeconfig too - GMT(X) /America/Los_Angeles
>>> - same result)
>>>
>>>
>>
>
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~ Edwin Johnson ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
~ http://www.shreve.net/~elj ~
~ ~
~ "Once you have flown, you will walk the ~
~ earth with your eyes turned skyward, ~
~ for there you have been, there you long ~
~ to return." -- da Vinci ~
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: lyx and latex (was:: Best E-mail Client?)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:37:04 GMT
* Garglemonster wrote:
> >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Christian> If you use LyX (graphical WYSIWIG frontend for LaTeX),
> Christian> the learning curve isn't that steep. My recommendation:
> Christian> Try LyX, and then switch to LaTex (if you want).
>
>
> i dunno... everyone says this, but i still find lyx _more_ difficult
> than plain old latex. i don't think latex is that difficult,
> especially if you've done some web pages or programming.
Agreed. However, I feel that LyX is an excellent way to start with
LaTeX: first you free your mind from the "highlight this, click bold,
don't like it, highlight again, click greater fontsize, hit space 50
times" by using the various styles.
Once you're accustomed to LyX, the mvoe to LaTeX is easy - I used to do
most of my writing (the little bit I do) with LyX, but then I realized
it sucks that I can't have remote access without exporting X, and I
started looking into LaTeX.
Having done a fair amount of HTML, I realized how easy it is to use
LaTeX, and I'd encourage /everybody/ who has to write moer than the
occasional letter (well, actually, even for that LaTeX is better) to use
LaTeX.
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new
witticism just for you. -- Larry Wall
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From: "guowei dai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Burn bootable CD's for Suse 7.1?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:46:24 GMT
Hi, anyone has some ideas on how to burn
bootable CD's for Suse 7.1? Seemed like Suse
makes the process hard by not making their
distribution's iso file available on their
ftp server, and only put up unsupported
evaluation versions there.
Any recommendation is appreciated.
Allen
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From: Low Han Ming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help : Kernel 2.4- Compile, Lilo fine but, hang at boot
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 00:13:56 +0800
Hi,
Thanks for the advice.
I manage to resolve the problem by doing a 'make install' before a I
copy my bzImage to the /boot.
It seem to correctly move the system.map and other relevant files to the
/boot directory.
Afterwhich, all is fine.
It seems that the HOW-TO is not quite up to date for this case.
Is there any way we can help to update this instruction so that newbie
like me will less likely to get caught in this mistake.
Cheers.
Han Ming
Davide Bianchi wrote:
> "Low Han Ming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > but when I select to boot from my newly compiled kernel
> > Loading linux-2.4........
> > Uncompressing Linux......Ok, booting the kernel
> > But it just hang there after that.
>
> I had the same problem and then realized that the problem was
> in the CPU type I choosed during compilation. Be sure to have
> selected the right CPU type, if unsure use a lower/generic-type
> (i586 instead of Pentium 2).
>
> Davide
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Subject: Re: 3COM 3C905C-TX under Debian 2.2r2
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Nulsen)
Date: 24 Mar 2001 19:56:07 +1100
Thanks for the suggestion, but this is a PCI card.
However, I've discovered that there is a known problem with some cards under
the 3c59x driver (see the vortex bug mailing list, which can be found with
Donald Becker's linux netword driver information at http://www.scyld.com/).
There is a new driver that seems to work with my card.
Paul Nulsen
"<toor>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Is this card a PNP? If it is, what you need to do is, download the
>diagnostic disk from 3com. And Run the program, and turn of PNP from DOS! I
>had the same problems, with 3c509 card.
>~Hope this helps
>Paul Nulsen wrote in message <3ab84059$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>
>>I've just installed Debian 2.2 on a PC with a 3COM 3C905C-TX PCI Ethernet
>>card. The kernel appears to detect the card properly. The relevant
>>messages are (hand copied):
>>eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xc000, (MAC address), IRQ 11
>> 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
>> MII transceiver found at address 1, status 24.
>> MII transceiver found at address 2, status 24.
>> Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
>>The IRQ and base address agree with /proc/pci.
>>
>>We are on a simple 10BaseT network, with a single default gateway.
>>
>>The interface seems to be configured correctly (ifconfig reports the
>correct
>>parameters; /etc/network/interfaces has the right params, including gateway
>>IP), but ifconfig reports 0 RX packets permanently. I've tried forcing the
>>media type (and full_duplex in various combinations) using insmod (and the
>>media forcing is reported by the driver). It may be transmitting, but I
>>have no easy way to tell. It reports no timeouts or other errors.
>>
>>All this is using the default kernel and modules (2.2.18pre21).
>>
>>Does anybody have any ideas? Maybe I have done something stupid.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Paul Nulsen
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